Photo: Facebook“Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, commenting on Tuesday cancellation of his planned trip to the US state of Iowa said that his Office applied for the US visa on his behalf, confirming that he received no answer from the US Embassy in Pristina. ‘My office has applied, there […]
Photo: ec.europa.eu“The EU is preparing to pledge a 2025 deadline for the next wave of enlargement, but Balkans disputes could hold things back. ‘The Western Balkans partners now have a historic window of opportunity. For the first time, their accession perspective has a best-case timeframe,’ the commission is to […]
Photo: Cord Magazine“‘We are friends with Russia, but we fully completely support territorial integrity of Ukraine. We do not support an independent Crimea. We think it’s one of these things that will open Pandora’s Box. Accession to the EU is on the top of the list of priorities of Serbia’ said […]
Photo: Shutterstock/Welcomia“The Bulgarian ambassador to the European Union says his country will work for reduced mobile-phone roaming charges between the EU and the countries of the Western Balkans that are not members of the bloc. Dimitar Tzantchev, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency from January through June, was […]
Photo: Kosova Press“A spokesman for the Iowa National Guard says Kosovar Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has canceled a planned visit to the U.S. state this week because “he was unable to get a visa.” The spokesman, Colonel Greg Hapgood, told RFE/RL on January 8 that the National Guard’s commanding officer, […]
Translated from Kosovo Minister of Foreign Affairs Begjhet Pacollli‘s Facebook page: “I just finished a very friendly meeting with my counterpart from the United Arab Emirates, the Foreign Minister and International Co-operation, His Majesty Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. I thanked him for the continued support they […]
Photo: Twitter“‘The Russians have not yet given up on their intentions, and I expect their interference during the upcoming local and presidential elections in Montenegro,’ said Jelena Milic, Director of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies (CEAS). She also said that ‘Montenegro’s NATO membership is the best news in the Balkans in the […]
“The President Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik said that RS made a decision on military neutrality and therefore there will be no base of NATO in BiH, nor in Brcko, as some have mentioned. ‘Any opportunity, hypothetically speaking, to get a NATO base would imply that it would mean, that […]
Photo: TraveleksThousands of Kosovo citizens have clearly expressed their stance towards two of the hottest topics in the recent past: the country’s demarcation of the country with Montenegro, which is holding Kosovo hostage to visa liberalization by the European Union, and the possible abolition of the Special Court, which […]
Photo: Al Jazeera“A Kosovo court has found four opposition lawmakers guilty of repeatedly disrupting parliament by using tear gas. The four members of the left-wing Self-Determination Party — Albin Kurti, Donika Kadaj Bujupi, Albulena Haxhiu and Faton Topalli — were sentenced Wednesday to up to 18 months in prison. They […]